With the new season on the horizon, it’s time to finalize our FPL teams for the 2019/20 season. Do we bank on premium strikers like Kane, Aguero, or Aubameyang or do we go with last season’s formula of overloading our teams with premium midfielders i.e, Salah, Mane, Sterling? Is it worth spending a huge chunk of your budget on last years big point getters, the Liverpool fullbacks? These are all questions FPL players will be deliberating in the coming week. The focus of this article will be to equip you with all the necessary knowledge to maximize the productivity of your Arsenal FPL assets. With an explosive attack and a brittle defense, Arsenal will be involved in quite a few high-scoring matches. This makes them a very exciting FPL pawn. Without any further ado, let’s dive into all the do’s and don’ts with respect to Arsenal’s FPL assets. Note: All the player prices featured in this article are from the official premier league FPL website.
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Josh Kroenke told us to be excited and he wasn’t lying. The transfer we were dreaming of has finally taken place. Arsenal look to have overcome stiff competition from Napoli, Liverpool and Man United to complete the signing of Lille winger, Nicolas Pepe, for a club record £72 million pounds. In accordance with their reputation as Staggered Payments FC, the transfer fee is being paid across the next 5 years of which only £20 million is being paid to Lille this summer. We’ve all seen the highlights of Pepe from last season flashing past defenders in Ligue 1 and slotting it into the net, but what can we actually expect from the Ivory Coast international.
This week’s edition of the Arsenal Canon transfer review is brought to you by our lord and savior in the transfer season, David Ornstein. On Saturday, David Ornstein confirmed that a £15 million offer was rejected by Celtic for their left back Kieran Tierney. This confirms Arsenal’s long rumored interest in the Scottish left back, with further rumors surfacing that a second bid closer to the £20 million mark was also rejected. This next week will be the breaking point for this deal. Celtic look like they will be holding firm on their £25 million valuation of Tierney. That represents a significant chunk of Arsenal’s transfer kitty without sales. Let’s figure out if Tierney is worth that amount for Arsenal.
In the past couple of years, Arsenal fans have been looking at their Liverpool supporting counterparts through envious glances. They have everything that a Gooner has been craving the past 10 years. They have a charismatic manager who plays a breathless brand of football. Their entire fanbase is unequivocally behind the club. They have meticulously assembled a team, without the backing of a sugar-daddy owner, that can compete with Europe’s best. There’s a feelgood factor around every aspect of the club, and there has never been a better time in the last 30 years to be a Liverpool supporter. So how did they manage to turn things around? Their journey to a champions league triumph at the end of a record-breaking league campaign, was fueled by a combination of managerial skill, intelligent executive oversight, and frankly a bit of luck to help the final pieces fall in place. In this article I’m going to dive into how Arsenal can replicate one aspect of Liverpool’s success, i.e. player sales.
This season’s transfer window has been a slow burn so far. Besides Real Madrid, other clubs seem to be biding their time until the right dominoes fall in place to make their moves. As Arsenal fans we’re used to being linked to everyone under the sun who has ever kicked a football. This season is no different, so far we’ve been linked to inexperienced players from the untapped reaches of Latin America to players in the Chinese super league looking to revive their careers. In this weekly transfer-themed segment of Arsenal Canon, I examine the player most heavily linked to a move to Arsenal in the previous week, Yannick Ferreira Carrasco
Unai Emery’s first season at Arsenal ended with a whimper. They collapsed from a commanding position in the league to finish outside the top 4 and produced a spineless performance in the Europa League final to clinch another season of Thursday night football. Murmurs of Emery Out are already starting to emerge amongst the Arsenal fanbase, but out of the cornucopia of problems that is Arsenal football club, how much of this falls on the shoulders of our head coach, Unai Emery? Let’s put recency bias aside, look back at his season as a whole, and come up with an overall grade for his first season at Arsenal.
The Europa League final is the most significant game in the recent history of the club. The club’s future for the next couple of seasons hangs on the results of this game. Whether or not Unai Emery’s season will be seen as a success depends on this one game. The caliber of players in the squad in the next few seasons depends on whether champions league qualification is attained through this game. As an added bonus, we’re playing local rivals Chelsea which comes with its own set of storylines. Petr Cech is playing his last game in a European cup final against the club at which he is a club legend and, if the stories are to be believed, will be joining as a sporting director next season. The much beloved Oli G stands in Arsenal’s way, after flopping in big European ties in the past for Arsenal (Monaco away, I’m looking at you). Eden Hazard is probably playing his last game in Chelsea blue. It’s all too much to take. Let’s try to take a step back and see if we can get a better perspective on where the game will be won and lost. Injuries
With the close of each season the Arsenal fanbase starts looking for people to point the finger at for the failings of the club. Now that the big red target sign that was Arsene Wenger is gone, it’s not as easy to find a single individual to blame. This season some of us have pointed towards the sometimes-questionable decisions taken by Unai Emery. Others identify the lack of investment in the squad as the cause of our inability to keep pace with our rivals. Conversely, a lot of us focus all our ire in the direction of individual players who have had up and down seasons, like Mustafi, Xhaka or Ozil.
Whichever side you fall on, there is one constant that is unavoidable in any argument. The elephant in the room in all discussions regarding Arsenal’s future. I am speaking, of course, of the now sole owner of Arsenal football club, Mr. Stan Kroenke. In this article, I’m going to dive into the history of Kroenke as a franchise owner and see what we can learn from his impact at Arsenal so far. Is he really the root cause of all the problems at Arsenal? Do his exploits live up to his depiction as the mustache twirling bad guy, in the fanbases’ depiction of the Arsenal narrative? How does he compare to the exploits of similar sports franchise moguls? Hopefully by unpacking some of these questions, we can get a better gauge on the man himself and what he needs to do to build a good rapport with the Arsenal fanbase. |
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